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From: ph@cs.uow.edu.au (Rev Phil Herring, DD (Ret.))
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Why is Oracle better than Ingres
Message-ID: <1990Dec18.055231.11153@cs.uow.edu.au>
Date: 18 Dec 90 05:52:31 GMT
Reply-To: ph@wyvern.cs.uow.edu.au (Rev Phil Herring, DD (Ret.))
Organization: The University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia
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A short time ago I posted some comments regarding the relative merits
of various RDBMSs. Some people have elected to take those comments
rather more seriously than I believe they should.

So, in fairness to them, I would like to point out to the readers 
of this newsgroup that benchmark information is, of course, notoriously 
difficult to assess, and simply quoting numbers out of the blue (as I 
did) does not constitute anything other than meaningless *rumour*, 
unless it is accompanied by detailed background information. My comments
were not accompanied by such details, and so they should be treated as 
(at best) the unsubstantiated opinion of one individual.



-- Phil.